No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
- André BretonHumanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
- John Ralston SaulI have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.
- Abdel Bari AtwanNone but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
- Albert Dunlap